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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

January 10, 2008Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 10, 2008, 12:46 PM CST for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 10, 2008, 12:46 PM CST (18:46 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2008, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Logan County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 10, 1:10 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	2 S Russellville, KY	HIGHWAY 431 COVERED WITH WATER.
Jan 10, 1:13 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Russellville, KY	A DAYCARE LOCATED AT 4TH AND NATIONAL WAS BEING EVACUATED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
Jan 10, 1:16 PM CST	FLASH FLOOD	Russellville, KY	JOHNSON...1ST AND PEYTON STREETS COVERED IN ONE FOOT OF WATER.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KLMK 101847
FFWLMK
KYC141-110045-
/O.NEW.KLMK.FF.W.0002.080110T1846Z-080111T0045Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1246 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 1244 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  RUSSELLVILLE

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3667 8706 3707 8705 3706 8686 3699 8667
      3693 8666 3676 8675 3676 8676 3667 8680
TIME...MOT...LOC 1846Z 180DEG 0KT 3676 8695

$$

DK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 10, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	26 min
Jan 10, 1:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	33 min
Jan 10, 1:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Simpson	14 min
Jan 10, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	29 min
Jan 10, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	17 min
Jan 10, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	27 min
Jan 10, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart, Larue	4 hr
Jan 10, 2:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	36 min
Jan 10, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	17 min
Jan 10, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor	19 min
Jan 10, 3:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Washington	18 min
Jan 10, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	20 min
Jan 10, 3:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Washington	27 min
Jan 10, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	36 min
Jan 10, 4:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Harrison, Nelson, Scott	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.